No signs of present instability were observed but there is a health crop of surface hoar forming on all aspects.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Seattle Ridge -West side of Main Bowl
Skinned up the standard motorized up track to the top of the ridge at 2800′ and skied into the western side of Main Bowl on N/NW aspects.
Observer Comments
Weather
Blue bird skies with a slight breeze in the drainage for the bowl
Temps were in teens at the road and in the bowls. At the ridge (2800')temps were in the 20's.
Snow surface
On the ridge the surface was variable from dense wind affect powder to scoured solid rim crust most of which was covered in surface hoar. On the slopes, both S and N aspects the surface was mainly dense powder with a coating of surface hoar.
Snowpack
Did not do any pits but probed on the skin out og Main Bowl and found the snow height to be anywhere from 90cm to 195 cm. There is a crust (which was observed on the S aspect as well) that is an average of 30 cm below the surface. Hand pits showed the new snow bonding fairly well to the crust.
Scoured snow/rim crust at the ridge top (@2800')
Looking across Main Bowl
Looking up from Main Bowl